Accountant and single mom Molly Bannister is out of money and luck in Phoenix when she unexpectedly inherits her great aunt’s homestead in northern Alberta. The only catch: she must…or one year to claim the inheritance. Molly promptly packs up her four-year-old daughter Bridget and heads north, expending the last of her meager resources to get there and intending to live off the farm’s rents from month to month until she can sell the farm and return, financially secure. Molly and Bridget gain numerous skills over the course of the year, as well as a puppy, a kitten, and friends including some nearby farmers and Wynona, a girl…
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Virtually Perfect
Following her fifteen minutes of fame as a celebrity chef (complete with TV show, cookbook deal, magazine column, and adoring fans), Lizzie Glass is reduced to working as a food…sting her recipes and photographs of her work without permission, she has to decide between compromising her values and unemployment. Roberts’ debut is a sound entry in the young-women-finding-themselves genre, and is a good pick for fans of Meg Cabot, Sophie Kinsella, cooking shows, and reality television….
The Fortune Teller
Sent to Switzerland to catalog a manuscript collection for her auction house employer, Semele Padnow nearly overlooks its greatest treasure, a volume written by Ionna, the daughter of a librarian at the Library of Alexandria. Womack (The Memory Painter) weaves the stories of these two women together as Semele translates the ancient text. Upon her return to Manhattan, Semele’s employer inexplicably removes her from the project, but by then she’s a…
Image Reproduction Fee Schedule
Fees as of June 2018 Services Each Scan Up to 600 DPI $10 Each CD Standard quality CD $5 Prints up to 8.5″ x 11″ Printed on Epson Photo R2880…8.5″ x 11″ Up to 13″ on one axis $10 Research over one half-hour First half-hour of research is included in basic fees $30 per hour Postage and handling For material sent via USPS $5 Details Standard 2-week turn around time. Patrons are encouraged to specify scan DPI, output file type and color or gray scale scanning if you want something different from the standard. If not specified, standard scan is in RGB for color images, or grayscale for B/W…
Designed for middle school students. Includes mainly full-text magazines, newspapers and reference books covering current events, the arts, science, popular culture, health, people, government, history, sports and more. This resource has a highly visual design and navigation combined with the authoritative content and user-focused tool set needed to support middle school assignments and coursework.
Free for all Massachusetts residents. Provided by the Massachusetts Board of Library Commissioners and the Massachusetts Library System. Want help using this resource? Contact us.
JSTOR (available in library)
This treasure trove for researchers contains back issues of over 800 scholarly journals in the humanities and social sciences. The website also contains tutorials and help pages to orient new users.
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PressReader lets you read colorful full-page reproductions of thousands of U.S. and international newspapers and magazines.
You can use PressReader in your web browser or in the iOS or Android app.
Provided by the Boston Public Library and available for free with a BPL eCard. Individuals who live in, own property in, or commute to work in Massachusetts may register for an eCard. Want help using this resource? Contact us.
Your library account
Your library account can be used to log in to a variety of resources, including the library catalog. You can log in to your the catalog using the “Log into My Account” on any page of the CW MARS catalog. When logged into the catalog you can: Place holds on books and other library materials Manage your holds Change your password And more The CW MARS help page has detailed instructions for how to log in, change your password, etc. What else can I d…
CW MARS Surpasses 1.8 Million Ebook and Audiobook Checkouts in 2020
February 26, 2021 — Top 25 public library consortium worldwide in total digital circulation Northampton, Mass. – Forbes Library helped CW MARS, the Central and Western Massachusetts Resource Sharing network, reach a record-breaking 1.8…ss: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer Little Women by Louisa May Alcott Readers in Western Massachusetts just need a valid library card to access digital books from CW MARS’s OverDrive-powered digital collection. Readers can use any major device, including Apple ®, Android™, Chromebook™ and Kindle ® (US only). Visit https://cwmars.overdrive.com/ or download the Libby app to get started and b…
A Book of Secrets
A fascinating combined biography of a place, the Villa Cimbrone on a hill above the Italian village of Ravello, and the people connected to it throughout different time periods. The…eads like a detective story and features such characters as Alice Keppel, the mistress of both the second Lord Grimthorpe and the Prince of Wales; to Eve Fairfax, a muse of Auguste Rodin; to the novelist Violet Trefusis, the lover of Vita Sackville-West and daughter of Alice Keppel. Having read extensively about some of these people already because of my interest in Virginia Woolf and the Bloomsbury Group, this book was a wonderful way to fill in…
Holds Request Form
You may use this form to place an interlibrary loan (ILL) request. Requests placed using this form will not be filled as quickly as those placed through the…You may use this form to place an interlibrary loan (ILL) request. Requests placed using this form will not be filled as quickly as those placed through the…
Endurance: a year in space, a lifetime of discovery
Scott Kelly reads the parallel stories of how a boy from blue collar New Jersey, son of alcoholic parents, became an astronaut and how he endured a year on the…Kelly reads the parallel stories of how a boy from blue collar New Jersey, son of alcoholic parents, became an astronaut and how he endured a year on the International Space Station. These stories are told in alternating chapters. Once you get used to his somewhat deadpan (I’m a tough fighter pilot, man of few words) delivery the parallel stories are engaging. Details of training in Russia and life aboard the ISS are fascinating. For those with an…
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